Tier- 2: e-skills90⁰ (Computer Competency)

The second level or e-skills90⁰ aims to enhance workforce competitiveness in computer skills such as office applications and PC skills. The skills also increase individual personal productivity by enhancing one's competitiveness and employability. e-skills90⁰ also assists the non-working group by equipping them with the relevant computer skills to enter the new digital working environment. Having attained basic computer literacy under the e-skills45⁰, a trainee could progress to learn office applications and PC skills endorsed by ICWFD. The e-skills90⁰ provides expert level and self-paced elearning of the Basic modules of Microsoft Word & Internet/Outlook training.

Pre-requisites:
E-skills45⁰

[This program is available in English only and can be distributed on CD’s.]

Course content of e-skills90⁰ (Tier – 2)

e-skills90⁰ Consists of MS Word, Internet / Outlook.

Microsoft Word

Using Word for the first time

• Terminology
• Keyboard shortcuts
• View modes
• Creating a new document
• Opening a document
• Saving a document
• Print preview
• Printing a document
• Printing several documents
• Selecting text
• Selecting a vertical text band
• Cutting, copying and pasting
• Going to a page
• Finding text
• Replacing text with new text
• The Select Browse Object button
• Automatic repair
• Multilingual Word

Good habits

• Automatic save with backup
• Saving in a personal directory
• Files with long names
• The Office Assistant
• Changing the behaviour of the Office Assistant
• My Places Bar
• Correcting a document
• The Click and Type feature
• The Reading Layout View
• Document Map and Thumbnails

Formatting a document

• The various parts of a document
• Margins, format and orientation
• The horizontal ruler
• Character format
• Animated text
• Paragraph format
• Reveal formatting
• Tabs
• Borders and shading
• Background
• Changing case
• Bullets and numbering
• Sections
• Using themes

Tips to save time

• Headers and footers
• Auto formatting a document
• AutoText
• Styles
• Templates
• Customising toolbars
• Setting up a keyboard shortcut
• Correcting automatically while typing
• Hyperlinks
• The Research task pane

Tables

• Tables and Standard toolbar
• The Insert Table command in the Table menu
• Changing text into a table
• Drawing a table
• Selections in a table
• Merging cells
• Formatting cells
• Autoformat
• Alignment and text orientation in a table

Pictures in a document

• Inserting a picture in a document
• Changing the size of a picture
• Wrapping text around a picture
• Automatic shapes
• Modifying shape settings
• The Graph tool
• Letterpress effects
• Inserting a diagram

Common problems

• Sorting data
• Symbols and special characters
• Footnotes
• Creating headed letters
• Writing a standard letter
• Numbering pages
• Mail merging
• Sending faxes with Word
• Writing e-mail
• Creating a Web page
• Multiple columns
• Inserting a comment
• Automating repetitive work with a macro
• Assigning a keyboard shortcut to a macro
• Interfacing with a scanner

Advance Features

• Workgroups and protection
• Formatting and editing restrictions
• Document encryption
• Digital signature
• Track changes
• Comparing documents

INTERNET AND OUTLOOK

Internet Explorer

• How to connect to the Internet
• Setting up an Internet connection
• Starting Internet Explorer
• The Internet Explorer window
• The home page
• Tip of the day
• How to navigate efficiently
• Searching for information on the Web
• Microsoft search feature
• The Media bar
• Using the History function
• Favourites
• Making a Web site available off line
• Downloading files
• Using the Help function
• Customising the toolbar
• Configuring Internet Explorer

Outlook

• Starting Outlook
• Creating a message account
• Automatic repair
• The Inbox Pane
• The Outbox Pane
• The Junk E-mail filter
• Creating a message with Outlook
• Creating a message with Word
• Attaching a file to a message
• Formatting a message
• Electronic signature
• Business Card
• Sending and receiving messages
• Organising received messages
• Replying to a message
• Searching for a particular message
• Automatic processing
• Using several message accounts
• Modifying the toolbars

Calendar, contacts and tasks

• The Calendar module
• Setting up an appointment
• Creating a task
• Printing a calendar
• Publishing a calendar
• Searching for information in the calendar
• The Contacts module
• Viewing and modifying a contact
• Making use of a contact
• Notes
• Outlook Today
• Updating Outlook

Newsgroups

• What are newsgroups?
• Starting up Outlook Newsreader
• Creating a newsgroup account
• Subscribing to a newsgroup
• Configuring synchronisation
• Viewing the messages
• Read and unread messages
• Sorting messages
• Setting up message rules
• Creating a new message
• Replying to a message
• Finding a message
• Copying interesting messages
• Setting up the Newsreader